Brave Origin Nightly is now available. Free for Linux only. All other versions cost $59.99:
I couldnāt resist buying it. You can make the stock one look the same with some work. This one is a bit lighter, but Iāve only just been testing it. I donāt really know what to think about the purchase.
edit. If the amount puts a dent in your budget, itās not worth buying.
Please do share your views for how it feels to use it. Iāll buy once it comes out in public beta. Nightly feels too unstable for me to even try. Iām sure the price is going to come down? If not, thatās an expensive browser but I guess we now know the lifetime cost of a user for Brave.
Itās already in the beta.
Perhaps I am missing it. There are so many links to the different versions and Iām getting confused. Can you please link to macOS Apple Silicon version of it?
Apparently macOS isnāt in beta yet.
So I was reading it correctly. Hence the confusion when you said its available. No worries. Thanks for confirming.
Would you happen to know if when you make your purchase, if it unlocks it across multiple platforms? Specifically at least one desktop environment, and mobile? Or does that need to be purchased separately?
Thereās apparently nothing official yet. I imagine theyāre waiting to release a stable version for all platforms. The Linux Nightly just came out, but on other operating systems theyāve already released the beta.
I tried the Linux version and it works well, it feels very clean. I found a bug where you canāt change the search engine from the settings.
Once the stable versions are out and they provide official information, Iāll probably buy it.
Thereās no nightly or beta version for Android/iOS yet.
Iām not positive, but Iād guess so. Having used it a bit more, Iāve decided it was a solid buy after all.
I can get it at https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/download/v1.90.102/Brave-Origin-Beta-arm64.dmg
And purchase it at https://account.brave.com/?intent=checkout&product=origin
If you buy it at the link above it gives you a download link at https://laptop-updates.brave.com/latest/origin which does work on macOS already, but appears to download the Nightly instead of the Beta channel I linked. Still, the Beta channel works fine and Iām guessing weāll see a full release pretty soon by the looks of it 
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Thank you
I donāt see the point of this price. They are asking for 60 USD for a browser, right? I know I am always complaining about the bloatware of the Brave, but many of them can be disabled via group policies, but yet they are asking 60 USD for Windows users only to cleanup their mess. Why? 5-10 USD āmight beā acceptable but 60? Nope, never.
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Because this price isnāt meant to be paid by the average user. Itās meant to be paid by enterprises, hence why itās free on linux and not windows, because enterprises primarily use windows.
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But enterprises are not using Brave. They are using either Edge or Chrome.
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Thatās why Brave is making Brave Origin. They are trying to push their way into the enterprise market.
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Never gonna happen. Just because they removed their bloatware doesnāt mean enterprises will accept it. Also, no enterprise will pay money for a browser. You cannot explain the cost to higher ups. I can give example for my company. We have like 330k employees, and if someone comes with the idea that we should pay 60 USD x 330000 = 19800000 USD for a browser, you will get an immediate no. They wonāt even ask why you need it. You have Edge, which is deeply integrated into MS suite, you have Chrome as backup browser again supporting with lots of enterprise policies, and there is literally zero reason for another browser. In worse case you can get Firefox, but not many companies will accept that either.
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Letās see if this purchase gets approved as a tax deduction. I donāt really care either way, but I just thought Iād try. 
Because this version is built for a specific demographic, and theyāre actively catering to that audience. There are a lot of users out there who have what Iād consider an irrational fear of all the extra stuff that comes packed into the Brave.
I can understand the annoyance, I personally donāt like it either, but they tend to exaggerate the issue to a large degree. A lot of these people arenāt power users. They arenāt going to spend time disabling features via group policies, tweaking registry keys, or going into deep settings. Plus, they rightfully shouldnāt be trusting random third party scripts to do anything wacky to their systems, especially right now, with the overall state of cybersecurity getting increasingly fragile due to everything going on with AI.
Personally, Iām a power user, but I still will be supporting this. But thereās a lot of things out there that I feel people are dumb for spending money on. If you think this is dumb, Iām not necessarily saying that youāre wrong. But there are so certain use cases where I feel like this is a good thing. Live and let live.
There are definitely groups out there that want to use this browser but have been asking for an official, clean version, and now they are getting exactly what they asked for. And Iām sure the folks at Brave are more than happy to make a profit off of a sub set of users who were never going to engage with their ad supported system in the first place. The company gets something in return that they probably werenāt going to be getting otherwise.
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Youāre generalizing. Law firms will want it. Anything to ensure any and all data is protected. Many sensitive industries exist. There are going to be some companies wanting this though Iām sure they will get enterprise pricing so youāre more likely than not wrong with the math too.
All of this is brand new. Letās wait and see how Brave advertises and positions this bloat-free browser. This is going to be for anyone to use.
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